In 'Three Fires', Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities, a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the 15th century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola, a friar and anti-corruption campaigner. In dramatizing the life of Savonarola, Mina explores the downfall of the original architect of cancel culture and, in the process, explores the never-ending tensions between wealth, inequality, and freedom of speech that...

"From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Even though...